Big Iron

Per Jessen wrote:
>> On Thu, 01 Feb 2001 13:30:48 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote:
>> >Hey, I have been hearing a lot of things about MVS, the inherant
> >superiority of the 390, and all sorts of stuff about how all these big
> >machines are so radicaly advanced that its not even funny...
> >
> >This has finally piqued my interest to the point where I now would like
> >to know more about how these machines work and what they can actually
> >do.
> >Since this list is tangentaly related to that field I am sure there are
> >at least a few here who could give me some useful pointers. =)
>> What would you like to know ?
> I doubt if the z-server architecture is particularly advanced, but it's
> probably on a par with other modern processors.
> I've done system-level development (mostly assembler) for the 370 and
> 390 architectures for 10-12 years - ask away. I've done VM, MVS and TPF -
> not much else runs on 390 - except for Linux now.
>
Go to IBM's site and look up "zseries" and "linux 390". Look thru that
and search for whatever else you're curious about.
Wes